Melrose Crescent, Seaham house prices are built from 112 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2004 and the most recent on 15 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £78,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +26.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -8.1%.
Median price paid
£78,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+26.9%
Change in real terms
-8.1%
Median per m²
£813
HM Land Registry112 sales21 with floor areaLatest sale 15 May 2026
Section 01
How Melrose Crescent, Seaham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Melrose Crescent, Seaham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2004 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 4 | £87,000 | £158,488 |
| 2010s | 1 | £80,000 | £112,800 |
| 2020s | 2 | £79,950 | £81,688 |
The highest yearly median on record for Melrose Crescent, Seaham is £101,500 in 2025; the lowest is £63,000 in 2004. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £63,000 to £101,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £116,882, so the real change over the whole record is -11.3% — about -0.57% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +26.9% in cash against -8.1% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 135 | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £120,000 | £120,000 |
| 44 | 9 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £78,000 | £78,000 |
| 83 | 21 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| 175 | 11 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £85,000 | £86,848 |
| 23 | 14 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| 54 | 14 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £85,500 | £87,359 |
| 26 | 13 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £110,000 | £112,391 |
| 37 | 5 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £93,000 | £95,022 |
| 92 | 20 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| 135 | 2 May 2024 | Terraced | £93,000 | £97,858 |
| 14 | 2 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £97,000 | £102,067 |
| 81 | 26 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £120,000 | £126,269 |
| 11 | 13 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £90,000 | £97,241 |
| 2 | 3 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £99,500 | £107,506 |
| 149 | 2 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £88,000 | £101,956 |
| 133 | 24 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £115,000 | £133,237 |
| 27 | 30 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £110,000 | £138,978 |
| 17 | 30 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £79,950 | £101,012 |
| 67 | 4 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £109,000 | £137,715 |
| 84 | 26 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £99,950 | £126,281 |
| 76 | 16 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £78,000 | £98,548 |
| 54 | 29 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £70,000 | £88,441 |
| 52 | 29 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £75,000 | £94,758 |
| 83 | 28 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £73,250 | £94,842 |
| 67 | 6 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £102,000 | £133,414 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Melrose Crescent, Seaham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 135 Melrose Crescent | £87,000 (2006) | £120,000 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| 44 Melrose Crescent | £55,251 (2008) | £78,000 (2026) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 83 Melrose Crescent | £73,250 (2020) | £120,000 (2025) | +10.4% | +5.3% |
| 175 Melrose Crescent | £17,000 (2002) | £85,000 (2025) | +7.2% | +4.3% |
| 54 Melrose Crescent | £74,000 (2007) | £85,500 (2025) | +0.8% | -2.1% |
| 23 Melrose Crescent | £59,500 (2019) | £120,000 (2025) | +12.4% | +7.9% |
| 26 Melrose Crescent | £29,000 (1998) | £110,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 92 Melrose Crescent | £37,000 (1996) | £160,000 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 81 Melrose Crescent | £103,500 (2007) | £120,000 (2024) | +0.9% | -2.1% |
| 11 Melrose Crescent | £36,000 (2000) | £90,000 (2023) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
| 2 Melrose Crescent | £32,000 (2001) | £99,500 (2023) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 133 Melrose Crescent | £32,500 (2000) | £115,000 (2022) | +5.9% | +3.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Melrose Crescent, Seaham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 71 | 63.4% | £80,000 | £16,000 – £124,950 |
| Semi-detached | 36 | 32.1% | £70,000 | £17,000 – £160,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 4.5% | £79,950 | £27,500 – £165,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Melrose Crescent, Seaham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 112 freehold — 0.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 112 | 100.0% | £78,000 |
A further 8 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Melrose Crescent, Seaham
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across County Durham, 45.4% of 308,749 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,955 | 0.6% |
| B | 26,324 | 8.5% |
| C | 111,773 | 36.2% |
| D | 123,575 | 40.0% |
| E | 34,304 | 11.1% |
| F | 8,153 | 2.6% |
| G | 2,665 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in County Durham at £641 a month as of Jun 2026 — £450 for a one-bedroom home and £683 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £78,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.86% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of SR7, 150 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 48 violent, 4 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 46 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.29 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Melrose Crescent, Seaham
The 2021 census counted 522,068 residents in County Durham across 234,764 households. 62.8% of those households own their home and 37.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a SR7 postcode: 9 primary, 1 nursery, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seaham High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,095 |
| Ribbon School | Primary | Academy converter | 514 |
| Seaham Trinity Primary School | Primary | Community school | 349 |
| St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 308 |
| Seaview Primary School | Primary | Community school | 256 |
| Westlea Primary School | Primary | Community school | 247 |
| Ropery Walk Primary School | Primary | Community school | 219 |
| New Seaham Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 216 |
| St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Seaham | Primary | Academy converter | 206 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Murton | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 127 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Seaham Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Park Lane (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 8.1 km |
| Park Lane (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 8.1 km |
| Horden | Rail | 8.2 km |
Section 09
How Melrose Crescent, Seaham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Melrose Crescent, Seaham sits below that national figure — -50.5%.
Within Seaham the street ranks 209 of 432 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £84,950 (-8.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £813 per square metre, across 21 of the 112 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £16,000 to £165,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Melrose Crescent, Seaham sits in County Durham, in the North East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in County Durham at 4.3 times median local earnings of £32,945 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- The Avenue£73,000 median
- Stoneycroft Way£140,000 median
- Princess Road£79,500 median
- Marsdon Way£200,000 median
- Runswick Drive£178,000 median
- St Helens Drive£122,500 median
- Beadnell Drive£147,000 median
- Milton Close£59,376 median
- Souter Drive£148,995 median
- Douglas Way£178,998 median
- Mappleton Drive£117,000 median
- Dawlish Close£94,998 median
- Ilchester Street£27,000 median
- Weymouth Drive£133,000 median
- Derwent Close£75,000 median
- Watling Avenue£75,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 175 Melrose Crescent5 sales
- 135 Melrose Crescent4 sales
- 54 Melrose Crescent4 sales
- 40 Melrose Crescent4 sales
- 26 Melrose Crescent3 sales
- 11 Melrose Crescent3 sales
- 133 Melrose Crescent3 sales
- 67 Melrose Crescent3 sales
- 84 Melrose Crescent3 sales
- 38 Melrose Crescent3 sales
- 41 Melrose Crescent3 sales
- 60 Melrose Crescent3 sales
- 44 Melrose Crescent2 sales
- 83 Melrose Crescent2 sales
- 23 Melrose Crescent2 sales
- 92 Melrose Crescent2 sales
- 81 Melrose Crescent2 sales
- 2 Melrose Crescent2 sales
- 27 Melrose Crescent2 sales
- 52 Melrose Crescent2 sales
- 78 Melrose Crescent2 sales
- 1B Melrose Crescent2 sales
- 181 Melrose Crescent2 sales
- 39 Melrose Crescent2 sales
Back to Seaham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Melrose Crescent, Seaham?
The median price paid in Melrose Crescent, Seaham across every sale on the register is £78,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Melrose Crescent, Seaham?
112 sales are on record for Melrose Crescent, Seaham, the most recent completing on 15 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Melrose Crescent, Seaham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +26.9% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -8.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Melrose Crescent, Seaham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £101,500, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Melrose Crescent, Seaham?
£813 per square metre, from the 21 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 15 May 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Melrose Crescent, Seaham house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.